Bouquet-holder



(No Model.)

s. B. OOSTON.

BOUQUET HOLDER. No. 393,886.

Patented Dec. 4, 1888. I

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SAMUEL B. COSTON, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOUQU ET- HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,886, dated December 4, 1888.

Application filed January 3, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. CosroN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Bouquet-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a clasp-holder to facilitate carrying a small bouquet by attachment to the apparel of the user; and my object is to provide such a holder consisting of two inclosing-jaws having flat inside faces with tubular seat for a bouquet formed therein, hinged together at one end, and having a lock-clasp for locking them together on the opposite end without squeezing or springpressure upon the flower-stems, and to have an ordinary fastening-pin and catch for attaching it to any fabric. f I

A clasp-holder having tubular-seated inclosing-jaws, broadly considered, is not new, having been long in use. These have been made, so far as I know, with spring-controlled or spring-actingjaws so constructed as to hold articles by spring-pressure.

My improvement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which "Figure'l is a vertical front view of a complete holder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or end View showing in full lines the holder as it appears when closed and in dotted lines the front jaw when opened. Fig. 3 is a Vertical back view of the holder, showing the attaching-pin and its catch.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through- Serial No. 259,814. (No model.)

In the drawings, I and Kare parallel jaws which constitute the holder. These jaws are hinged together at one end, 'B, and have a clasp, A, at the other end. Midway of their length the jaws are bent to form semi-tubular seats, so that when clasped together they form the tube D. At the upper edge of one of the jaws is attached a pin, 0, and at the lower edge a catch, H.

The .device may be conveniently and cheaply formed by cutting and swaging from any suitable light sheet metal.

In applying this holder to use it is only necessary to open the jaws, place a bouquet in the seat, close and lock the jaws, and attach the holder to any fabric by the pin and catch.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A bouquet-holder consisting of two jaws hinged together at one end and clasped together at the other, each of said jaws having a semi-tubular seat midway of its length, and one of said jaws having a pin and catcli,substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 30th day of December, A. D. 1887.

SAMUEL B. COSTON.

In presence of MILTON W. LOWRY, WM. R. LEWIs. 

